Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-08-06
DIES WITH HIS BOOTS ON.
Another one of the N.tOrious "Clanton Gang of Outlaws and DeEperadoes Crosses over the River styI.
 A Detailed Account.

Detailed Account.
 The readers of the Critic will begin to think that the tragic carnival of death is holding daily sessions in tEe noun tsins on tbe border of Apache and Ora ham counties; bat be that as It may. this seems 10 be s cold year for outlaws and murders ID tnIs vicinity.
 By way of preface tO the detailed re- port of the killing of that dastardly murderer Lee Rent. O. which occurred on the oth day of tbs month. in the White m1untains, Ia Graham county, 1 VII! briehy recount tbe circumstance uUd3r which RenfrO murdered Isaac N Elhnger. well known m this community: {: @ yOaGg man Cf strict integrity, temper nte habits ana possessing all tne quail iies that are requisite to make good citizen:
 Sometime last fall, while Ellinger wss tenn porHIi;y absent from hIs ranch, whirh was situated just across the terri tOrIsl line in NeE Mexico and known as the Cottonwood ranch. cue Craig at the lnstigatiOn of Renfro, jumped" the property. Mr. Ellinger had purchased the place more than a year previous and had made 1t his home and heac quarters. On or about the 6:h of November last, be Tn company with Wilds r. Trimmer went c. Cienega Amarillo, (the Canton rsnch) and 1t being about noon EllInger and hIs friend Plummer, upon the invi- tstiOn of the Clsnton's, dIsmounted and took dinner. Besides these two gentle med there vas present at the table, Ike and Phin. Clanton, Lee Renfro and Bill Jackson. While dining. the subject of the jumping of the ranch came up, but no hard words were passed. The hrst to finish eating were Mir. EllinRer. Ike Clanton and Lee R-niro, who arose and passed to Pbin Clsnton's cabin. some ten or twelve steps distant. They had but entered the room wben Renfro com menced to abuse Ellinger for something that It was reported had been said about the jumping of the ranch. at the same time picking up his six shooter from the table sDd walking toward EllinG-r. At this jahcJion Ike Clauton stepped in be- tween them, but R snfro suddenly threw bis pistol around Ike and sho, F. finger ID tEe b.esst. Mir. EllInger lived sever- al dsys iH great agony, Euffefinx 6 thou sand dsRihs, and dIed on CT EbOnt the tenth day of November last. Ks.f fro seciug tnas hIs victim had rsccI,ej al mortal vCuod ssked for hJrse, which wss at ouee furnished by the C.sBtOns. and Ice Reniro rode away and ha. been sknik'bg m the mountains Of Arizona the most Of the time Eincs; fugitive 'rJIa justice. with no other c"mgauy than outlaws and wild beasts
 l, is strange now these kild Ct ch4rac- ters in spiie uf theIr precautions, meet th lT doom. Re1frO. with sOme Ot his klDdred splrits. was camped m s canon, Opening out on the Rio BOnitO. Tn tie mountains ou the Apache Indian reser- vRtioD. on the Sth day of this month. On this same date a secret service off ceT, accompanied by three man furnish ed hIm by the agent of the San Carlos Indiana. by a singuler ohGace, happeBed to be hunting Tor stolen cattle belong ing tU 5he San Carlos Agency. in the neigLb1rhOod WheIe Reufro and hIs | D,si y 's..e caupe1. As the office. aud posse were ri1Ins -ofoss a plateau they obsarv.d @ man come ous Of b canon about one hundred aud fifty yards dis tan', on foot aud m bis shirt-sleeves. l Toe officer said to tgo of hia men "you | fellows rIce over to shat man ard tel | him Inst v are from tue southern cOun- ! aAl Na H.N~HAAH " ~ nun AN 'nllAE we ! t=.t. Hs l want Co question him about | rge ;rsils." The two men rode over to | C. nan n bis shIrt-sleevCs ani clnveTs- ! iHs @Ith him few mcnen.s. they to- 1 s-t-r- ri-turusd to wbsre they had left | tee officer and hi- renaiuing companion, | v hl ln the mean time had Ci-mounted ! and were pretending tO be fixing their | -riiles. Wh 'n the approaching perty l wtr1 within ten or fifteen ,Eces he secret s-rvice cfiicer, wnO had his hOTse be- tween him sud the approaching par y, | recognized ReDfrO. He quickly stepped iu front of his horse and called out: Lee Reniro. throw up your hands, y repeating the order twice. B5nfro in- siesd of ObeyiDg the command attempt ed tO pull his six-shOoter. when the ofii- cer fired shooting him through the upper | part of the heart and left lung. Renfro | fell: the officer ran to him end Renfro calling him by name asked:
 Did you shoot me for money.
 The officer replied: "No, I shot you because you resisted arrest"
 Renfro then said: "L suppose 1t IS all up with me-" and asked the officer to take his watch and other effects he had on his person and send them to his brother m Cowboy, Texas, and without speaking another word be bresthed his last.
 This man Renfro was an abject and SC rvIle tool of Ike Clanton, who met tbe same fate but few weeks before. and they both occupy untImely graves with in twenty miles of each other in the wilds of the White mountains.
 IL is remarkable the swift and terrific retribution which has followed every man closely connected with the jump ing of the Cotion-woC ds ranch ana the murder of Ike EllinRer,
 Craig the man who jumped the ranch, was shot and killed at Fsirview, New Mexico, in a drunken vrangle over a horse race. Ike ClsntOn who was pres ent when ElliDRsr was shot down, fol- lowed closely in Craig's trail, leading into the dark valley of death, and now comes. ou the same ghsstlY trail, the qusking, cringing, murderous soul Of Lee Rsnffo. all crimson with the blood of an honored citizen, rushing heaGlong in quest of the two kindred spirits, who have sO shOrtly proceeded him into the "great uI known." that "undiscCvered country from whence no traveller re- turns"
 Thus ends the fourth sc: in the bloody tragedy oi the murder of Isaac EllInFer.-Apaohe Co. Critic,
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